~ HO’VEA PURPU’REA. 
ot eee HOVEA. 
EXOGEN&, : DICOTYLEDONE2. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSA. 
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CALYCIFLORE 
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DECANDOLLE,. sa this eas | on TEENS, 
No. 72. 
Hovesa. Ropsert Brown. Catryx — sae a 
semibifido Into retuso, inferiore seperti ato. CaRINA 0 Sta 
p Peace snl ‘ideccaiigs : 
yentricosum dispermum. SEMINA strophiolata. DEcanpoLLE: Prodromus 
Systematis Universalis Regni Rit = ny p- 115, 
SPECIES. Hovea purru Sweet. Forts lineari oblongis obtusis 
mucronulatis supra ae abris aubin ‘onli pedicellis petiolo brevioribus 
geminis. Linpzey: Botanical Register, folio 1423. 
CHARACTER OF THE Genvs, Hovea. Catyx two-lipped, upper 
lip semibifid, broad, retuse, lower lip three parted. KrEeLobtuse. Sra- 
MENS all united into a monadelphous tube, or the tenth stamen more 
or less detached at the upper part. Lee@uMen or pod sessile, roundish, 
swelling, two-seeded. Srxps strophiolated, 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, HovEA purRPUREA.. A shrub, six 
feet high, branched, bushy, branches thickish, round or slightly angled, 
covered with a greyish pulverulentdown. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
sl ei ie foe we a eae linear, oblong, obtuse, either 
pex, slightly revolute at the mar- 
gins, upper arty very deep green, slightly retictinied. smooth; under 
surface densely clothed with an arachnoid down, grey in the old leaves, 
or a rusty colour in the expanding leaves; mid-rib conspicuous on 
both, but especially on the under surface. -Frowers axillary, clothing 
the upper branches, geminate, ped llate; pedicels shorter than the 
petioles of the leaves: flowers purple, diverging to each side of the 
branches, every flower provided with 3 b 
rracte les, which are ovate, 
adpressed, of a rusty brown colour, the two. superior nearly equa] to the 
teeth of the calyx, the inferior smaller and more remote. CaLyx 
densely covered with down; upper lip truncate, emarginate, lower lip 
REFERENCE TO THE DissEcTIONs. 
1, The standard. 2, Fl fi hich the standard has t i, 3, The keel. 4, The 
stamens. 
